On This Day
1760 – Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.
The Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761; in the Cherokee language: the “war with those in the red coats” or “War with the English”), was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion. The war was a conflict between British forces in North America and Cherokee bands during the French and Indian War.
The British and the Cherokee had been allies at the start of the war, but each party had suspected the other of betrayals. Tensions between British-American settlers and Cherokee warriors of towns that the pioneers encroached on, increased during the 1750s, culminating in open hostilities in 1758.
1495 – A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.[2]
A tercio (pronounced [ˈteɾθjo]; Spanish for “[a] third”) was a military unit of the Spanish Army during the reign of the Spanish Habsburgs in the early modern period. The tercios were renowned for the effectiveness of their battlefield formations, forming the elite military units of the Spanish Monarchy. They were the essential pieces of the powerful land forces of the Spanish Empire, sometimes also fighting with the navy. The Spanish tercios were a crucial step in the formation of modern European armies, understood as made up of professional volunteers, instead of levies raised for a campaign or hired mercenaries typically used in other European countries of the time.[citation needed]
The tercios’ internal administrative organization, and their battlefield formations and tactics, grew out of the innovations of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba during the Italian Wars. The tercios marked a rebirth of battlefield infantry comparable to the Macedonian phalanxes and the Roman legions.[7] From the victory in Pavia (1525), and on to a period of over a century, their position as the finest infantry in Europe was built upon their professional training and high proportion of “old soldiers” (veteranos), in conjunction with the particular elan imparted by the lower nobility who commanded them. In addition, they were among the first to effectively mix pikes and firearms (arquebuses). The tercios were replaced by regiments in the early eighteenth century.
From 1920, the name of tercio was given to the formations of the newly created Spanish Legion; professional units then created to fight colonial wars in North Africa, similar to the French Foreign Legion. These formations are actually regiments bearing the name of tercio as an honorary title.
Born On This Day
1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799)
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier (sometimes written as Lemonnier) (27 June 1717 – 7 September 1799) was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[1]
He was born near Vire as the son of Pierre Le Monnier (1675–1757), who was a scientist himself and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.[2] Louis-Guillaume’s older brother was the astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier.[3]
Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier worked in physics, geology, medicine, and botany. In 1739 he accompanied the expedition of César-François Cassini de Thury and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to extend the Meridian of Paris and documented mines and the geology and botany along the route.[2] In the same year, he also began working at the hospital of Saint Germain en Laye as a physician. He researched electrical phenomena, sending a current from a Leyden jar through a wire 950 toises (about 1,850 m) long and concluded that electricity propagated “instantaneously” in the wire.[4] Later research of his on electrical phenomena was concerned with thunderstorms and the “fair weather condition”.[5]
Like his father and his brother before him, Louis-Guillaume became a member of the Académie des sciences on 3 July 1743,[2] and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 7 February 1745,[6] of which his brother also was a member. On 30 June 1746, one year after his brother, he also became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[7]
With Claude Richard he was one of the original organizers of Louis XV’s botanic collection at Petit Trianon, an undertaking quickly joined by Bernard de Jussieu. Lemonnier was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin du Roi (later the Jardin des Plantes) in 1759, filling a spot left by the death of Bernard de Jussieu’s brother Antoine in April of the previous year. In 1786 he was succeeded as professor of botany by René Louiche Desfontaines.[8]
For Diderot’s Encyclopédie he wrote several entries, among them “Electricité”, “Magnétisme”, “Aimant” (Magnet), and “Aiguille aimantée” (Compass needle).[3][9] After 1759, he stopped publishing, though.[10] In his later career, he became in 1770 “Premier médecin ordinaire”[10] and in 1788 “Premier médecin du Roi”.[2]
His lover was Marie Louise de Rohan, Madame de Marsan, future Governess of the Children of France.
His publications include:
Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l’équilibre des liqueurs et sur la nature et les propriétés de l’air (1742).
Observations d’histoire naturelle faites dans les provinces méridionales de France, pendant l’année 1739 (1744).
Recherches sur la Communication de l’Electricité (1746).
Observations sur l’Electricité de l’Air (1752).
1503 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)
Giovanni della Casa (28 June 1503 – 14 November 1556), was a Florentine poet, writer on etiquette and society, diplomat, and inquisitor. He is celebrated for his famous treatise on polite behavior, Il Galateo overo de’ costumi (1558). From the time of its publication, this courtesy book has enjoyed enormous success and influence. In the eighteenth century, influential critic Giuseppe Baretti wrote in The Italian Library (1757), “The little treatise is looked upon by many Italians as the most elegant thing, as to stile, that we have in our language.”[1]
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